It has stopped me from doing and saying many things in my life. Fear of losing people, fear of upsetting people.Fear of doing it wrong, fear of failure, fear of embarrassment, fear of dancing and looking silly. Fear of being alone for the rest of my life, however the fear of asking someone out outweighs …
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The simple life of a walking holiday and the lessons I learned
Rather than spending a week at home I decided to follow my own advice from many years ago and choose adventure over boredom. I walked the West Highland Way. 96 miles of walking and camping up Scotland’s west coast. The thing which made this a nice trip was the simplicity of it. Each day I …
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Turning fear into excitement
You hear of athletes who talk about turning nerves into energy and excitement.“I found that reappraising anxiety as excitement is more effective than trying to calm down.” a US study of pre-performance anxiety, researcher Alison Wood Brooks.You see them at the start line of a running track or a game, usually focusing on what needs to happen …
Paddling career.
One of the things most often asked by other kayakers or canoers is how long have you been paddling? Simple enough question but it got me thinking, how long have I actually been paddling? My earliest memories of any sort of structured kayaking was when I was 10 and I got lessons in a swimming …
Cooking and me
Not my usual topic but I have been enjoying the extra time in the kitchen recently. I always used to think eating food fell into 2 categories – fuel and social. We all know we need food to sustain us and most of my meals were simply that, fuel to keep me going. Then there …
A month of reflection
The plan for March was to try and socialise in new circles, think of topics to discuss with people and generally do some stuff which I can then later talk about with people. As I am sure most of you are aware the advice across many countries is now to reduce social interaction to slow …
How do you move forward when everything stops…
When the world around you collapses, do you work to rebuild it how it was? Do you spend your time sorting through the rubble to determine what is actually useful and worthwhile? Do you simple stand and stare at the ruins wondering who is going to fix it? Do you look around and see who …
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Good or bad, hard to tell
So I witnessed a great tragedy. Whilst doing something I loved, I saw someone die. At the time it was awful and consumed my thoughts, putting me off the sport.Is the reward worth the risk? For a long time after it shook me, images of that day still flash into my mind, certain triggers make …
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